Recruiting

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

- Patients with middle cerebral artery (MCA) acute ischemic stroke. - Time of stroke onset is known and treatment can be started between day 1 and 7 of onset. - DWI-MRI has reliably shown acute MCA ischemic lesions - Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) must confirm ipsilateral MCA permeability - National Institute of Health Stroke Scale score of 6-20 at inclusion - Age 18-80 years - Written informed consent has been obtained

Professionals

Education

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This project is supported in part by the NIH Specialized Programs of Translational Research in Acute Stroke (SPOTRIAS) Network, and NINDS grant 3P50NS055977 to Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine and UT Southwestern Medical Center.